Feminism

She’s been an advertising executive, author and social commentator, and now Jane Caro is considering a tilt at politics. As momentum grows, she says it’s “unlikely’ she’ll stand against former prime minister Tony Abbott. But she won’t be standing on the sidelines either, she tells Jane Hutcheon.

Chelsea Whelan's father and grandfather are both bricklayers, and she's been around job sites since she was six or seven. It's no surprise then she's the first Tasmanian female apprentice to join the trade.

Adultery is no longer a crime in India, after the country's highest court struck down a law instigated under British rule that made it illegal for a man to have sex with a married woman without her husband's consent.

Former ABC chair Justin Milne demeaned Michelle Guthrie if reports he called her "the missus" at work are true. Workplace language can be a quagmire, so here's how to choose your words carefully, writes Gary Nunn.

Liberal MP Julia Banks has used a speech in parliament to take aim at "widespread, pervasive and undermining" behaviour in Federal Parliament, saying gender quotas are the only way to ensure equal representation in the party.

The journey to the Marie Stopes clinic in Melbourne's east is a harrowing one for the 200 or so women who go there each year. To walk through its doors, one of its doctors says, is to have exhausted all other options.